On a recent trip to Lucerne in Switzerland there was plenty of opportunity for surprise, becoming a ‘culture vulture’ visiting several museums in just a few days. I especially enjoyed the Bourbaki-Panorama which was the pre-cinema equivalent of 3D movies. It is a huge walk-round painting which depicts the retreat of the French at Les [...]
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Benedictine Kloster, Engelberg – A Monk’s Life
on January 4, 2012
It is easy to become blasé visiting an attraction of the kind which has previously been visited on numerous occasions. Visiting the Kloster in Swiss Engelberg, having stayed in a few monasteries and visited more already this charge could have justifiably been aimed at me. Less than five minutes after meeting our guide it was [...]


